Banksy, The Unauthorised Retrospective: watch the video

Watch the promotional video for a new exhibition of the graffiti artist's work
at Sotheby's

By Rebecca Hawkes

11:05AM BST 13 Jun 2014

A video promoting the new Banksy retrospective at Sotheby’s S/2 gallery has been released.

In the video, Steve Lazarides, the curator of the exhibition and the graffiti artist’s former agent, discusses his passion for graffiti art, while attacking the pristine white S/2 gallery with several paint-filled fire extinguishers.

Lazarides developed his enthusiasm for graffiti artists as a teenager, growing up in Bristol.

In the video, he explains: “You had people like Inkie running riot all over town, doing wildly inventive stuff. Of course it was highly illegal, colourful, tied into the hip-hop scene at the time – all the things that would appeal to a 14-year-old idiot.”

The retrospective at Sotheby's is the first major exhibition of Banksy’s work. None of the artist's famous graffiti street pieces will be included: instead, the retrospective focuses on Banksy’s canvas paintings and sculptures, including Banksus Militus Vandalus, the stuffed rat he smuggled into the Natural History Museum back in 2004.